BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [18 APR. 1928]
BRACERS 19764. AL. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

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Telegraph House
Harting, Petersfield.1
Wed.2

My Beloved

It was wonderful having that day together3 — it has remained in my mind as on a different level from the days that just come and go. Illness in the school4 and various worries prevented me from writing sooner. I shall hope to see you again when you come back from S. Africa.5 I did not know till that day how I still feel towards you — Some things, it seems, are indestructible.  My thoughts go with you, my dear Love —

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  [document] Document 200770.

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  [date] The date has been assigned from “Wed.” and the time of her departure for South Africa.

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  that day together Sunday, 4 March 1928. Colette visited him at Telegraph House (BRACERS 19763).

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  in the school Beacon Hill School, which was founded in September 1927.

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  when you come back from S. Africa Colette sailed for South Africa on Friday, 20 April 1928 on a theatre tour organized by Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson. An entire chapter of After Ten Years (London: J. Cape, 1931) is devoted to the tour. She returned to England on 17 February 1929.